Past and present CHL talent hits the ice at IIHF World Hockey Championship in Denmark

The Canadian Hockey League is well represented at the 2018 IIHF World Hockey Championship getting underway in Copenhagen and Herning, Denmark this week.

A total of 100 past and present CHL players including 37 from the Ontario Hockey League, 35 from the Western Hockey League and 28 from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League are competing in the tournament, with at least one CHL graduate included on the rosters of each of the 16 countries competing.

The list includes a total of 19 CHL grads representing Canada as they look to return to the top of the podium after settling for silver last year in Cologne, Germany and Paris, France. Canada has won a total of 26 gold medals at the international competition with back-to-back triumphs coming in 2015 and 2016.

A total of three players who competed in the CHL this past season are included on tournament rosters including Canadian goaltender Michael DiPietro (Windsor Spitfires), Belarus forward Maksim Sushko (Owen Sound Attack) and Latvian blueliner Kristians Rubins (Medicine Hat Tigers).

The list also includes eight players that competed in the Canadian Hockey League during the 2016-17 season including Canadian talent in Thomas Chabot (Saint John Sea Dogs), Mathew Barzal (Seattle Thunderbirds), Czech defenceman Filip Hronek (Saginaw Spirit), German forward Manuel Wiederer (Rouyn-Noranda Huskies), the Latvian trio of Rodrigo Abols (Acadie-Bathurst Titan), Rudolfs Balcers (Kamloops Blazers) and Rihards Bukarts (Portland Winterhawks) as well as 2017 OHL Player of the Year Alex DeBrincat (Erie Otters) of the United States.

Canada leads the way with 19 CHL graduates on the roster followed by the Czech Republic with 14, Germany with 12 and Slovakia with 11.

CHL GRADUATES COMPETING AT IIHF WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP:** played in the CHL during the 2017-18 season* played in the CHL during the 2016-17 season

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